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Stocks, euro slide as worries about Europe persist - AP

| Kells Hetherington
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Energy companies fell hard as the price of crude oil plunged 4 percent

High taxes have consequences

| Rep. Peter Roskam

Illinois’s recent corporate tax hike is driving jobs out of the state.

Big business goes green for greenbacks - TheDC

| Amanda Carey

Businesses push cap and trade for government cash; fail to recognize bill’s long term implications

Money, power, and greed

| Bill Regardie

When General Stanley McChrystal was relieved of command last week because of the Rolling Stone article, it opened up a strange new world for this highly decorated and respected military leader

Did capitalism or government fail us?

| Ron Hart

The inevitable pictures of pelicans covered in oil finally surfaced, solidifying this oil spill as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. We have not seen this many pictures of unintelligent animals covered in oil since the first season of “Jersey Shore”

ObamaCare vastly expands IRS red tape

| Hans Bader

It also raises medical and insurance costs, taxes, and deficits, and harms very sick people

Verizon joins health-care fight

| interns

Verizon has become the latest company to record a major cost related to the U.S. health-care overhaul

GOP shifts message from health law repeal to jobs - The Daily Caller

| Jon Ward

Following an initially fractured response to the passage of Obama’s health bill, Republicans focusing on the law’s impact on businesses and jobs

Larger implications in health care heist

| Ron Hart

When we elected Obama, we chose rhetoric over reason. We will pay dearly for it

Daily Caller High: Vol. IX

| Daily Caller High

Editor’s Note: Daily Caller High is a group of young writers cutting their teeth in the world of political punditry. This week, the authors’ reflect on events of the past few days.

CEOs won’t dare defy Waxman, even with facts on their side

| Benjamin Domenech

The problem with massive reforms based more on good intentions than on proven policy steps: They tend to run smack into the brick wall of facts

Pelosi was right: Now we’re finally seeing what’s in the bill

| Dustin Siggins

It’s time Republicans showed they are listening to the American people—because Democrats sure aren’t

Caterpillar says health-care overhaul bad business - CHICAGO BREAKING BUSINESS NEWS

| interns

Caterpillar Inc. said the health-care overhaul legislation being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives would increase the company’s health-care costs by more than $100 million in the first year alone

Companies back out of climate group as skepticism grows - The Daily Caller

| AJ

BP, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar, have abandoned the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), the largest business group that lobbied for broad emissions cuts